Love, Life & Work: Being a Book of Opinions Reasonably Good-Natured Concerning How to Attain the Highest Happiness for One's Self with the Least Possible Harm to Others - Softcover

Hubbard, Elbert

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1534614419 ISBN 13: 9781534614413

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2016

Synopsis

“In his latest collection of essays, ‘Love, Life, Work,’ Elbert Hubbard treats these three great subjects in a truly Hubbardesque manner, with dash and dispatch, and illuminating flashes of humor. ‘Get Out of Get in Life,’ inspired by Abraham Lincoln’s letter to Hooker, is as good in its way as ‘The Message to Garcia;’ and the eternal truth of health, fresh air, hold your head up, prepare for the future by being today what you want to be tomorrow, work for work’s sake, and religion without formalism, are told again in fresh and vivid ways.” -Book News

“To love one’s friend, to bathe in life’s sunshine, to preserve a right mental attitude – the perceptive attitude, the attitude of gratitude – and to do one’s work – these make up an ideal life.” -Elbert Hubbard

Success is in the blood. There are men whom fate can never keep down—they march forward in a jaunty manner, and take by divine right the best of everything that the earth affords. But their success is not attained by means of the Samuel Smiles-Connecticut policy. They do not lie in wait, nor scheme, nor fawn, nor seek to adapt their sails to catch the breeze of popular favor. Still, they are ever alert and alive to any good that may come their way, and when it comes they simply appropriate it, and tarrying not, move steadily on.

Good health! Whenever you go out of doors, draw the chin in, carry the crown of the head high, and fill the lungs to the utmost; drink in the sunshine; greet your friends with a smile, and put soul into every hand-clasp.

Do not fear being misunderstood; and never waste a moment thinking about your enemies. Try to fix firmly in your own mind what you would like to do, and then without violence of direction you will move straight to the goal.

Fear is the rock on which we split, and hate the shoal on which many a barque is stranded. When we become fearful, the judgment is as unreliable as the compass of a ship whose hold is full of iron ore; when we hate, we have unshipped the rudder; and if ever we stop to meditate on what the gossips say, we have allowed a hawser to foul the screw.

Keep your mind on the great and splendid thing you would like to do; and then, as the days go gliding by, you will find yourself unconsciously seizing the opportunities that are required for the fulfillment of your desire, just as the coral insect takes from the running tide the elements that it needs. Picture in your mind the able, earnest, useful person you desire to be, and the thought that you hold is hourly transforming you into that particular individual you so admire.

Thought is supreme, and to think is often better than to do.

Preserve a right mental attitude—the attitude of courage, frankness and good cheer.

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About the Author

Elbert Green Hubbard was an American writer and publisher, artist, and philosopher. Raised in Hudson, Illinois, he had early success as a traveling salesman for the Larkin Soap Company. Hubbard spent much of his life carefully collecting quotes and passages of significance from history and literature. As he gathered these selections, he added them to his scrap book for his own personal inspiration. Yet, he never once conceived of the idea to publish what had served as spiritual nourishment for his own refreshment and pleasure.

About this edition

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1534614419
• ISBN 13: 9781534614413
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 106